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shitloadofbooks on Oct 22, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retract...

US companies are integrating fairly public "spy chips" in the form of Intel's ME and AMD's PSP.

These have very little/no benefit for the average consumer.

wpdev_63 on Oct 22, 2018 [–]

Well that hasn't been confirmed with all the research around it[0]. A spy chip/core doesn't need to be part of intel ime to be in there though.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsmHmYxyoxg

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